Why the 2017 Audi A4 is the 'best new car on the road today'

It's 2016 and there are no bad cars. There just aren't.

Sure, I recently kvetched about the Maserati Ghibli. But, in the grand schemes of things, the Ghibli is not a bad car — it's just a bit disappointing and arguably worse than its competitors. Not so long ago, cars used to be a lot worse than they are today. Let me explain what I mean.

Until very recently, the 1990s for example, even brand-new cars had issues that buyers would consider unacceptable today. Some suffered from throttle hesitation or inadequate brakes, while others were just generally poorly built and suffered from poor reliability. In the last two decades, through technological advances, virtually every carmaker has remedied these problems. Read more...